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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Masculine Card, A "Love Life" Card and a Tutorial

Lets Call This Technique "Manipulated"
There will be more cards using this
technique to come.
You can also put a vellum or mesh over these.

The picture below looks terrible!!! I couldn't get
a good photo for some reason. The photos above
look a little more like real life.
For the Background You Will Need:
You will need to know that you will be wasting some ink.
White glossy card stock
Alcohol inks (several colors/lights and darker colors)
StazOn or Memories ink
Very important: non stick craft mat
something to cover your work surface.
A few folded pieces of paper towel
TUTORIAL:
Try to visualize what your scene will look like.
Now realize that it will never come out exactly
like you imagined. LOL
You can do an abstract design or scenery.
I prefer scenery.
Always apply lightest color first, as in most art!
Hold card stock (over some folded paper towel) -
on an angle and apply the first color of your
alcohol inks.
***Touch the edge or corner of card stock on the
paper towel to allow the excess ink to be absorbed.
You want the ink to flow down your card,
while you manipulate where the flow goes,
by tilting your card stock to different angles.
ie: if you are doing a nature setting then you
might want to start with the sky. I would start with
Yellow and manipulate your card so that the yellow
ink only flows where you want it. Then incorporate
your different sky colors. I always use yellows, orange,
reds, purples a few different
blues, and I always use some metallic pearl mixed with
the blues. Then for the middle ground you may
want earth colors. Maybe flat or maybe you might create
some mountains.
For the foreground you might want some hilly areas.
Just use your creative imagination and see
what you come up with.
Stamp your choice of images over this background -
using memories or stazon ink.
Some will turn out better than others.
If one turns out bad then use your spellbinders
to frame the good part of it or just make butterflies out of it. lol
JUST HAVE FUN and
BE FEARLESS WHEN CREATING ART!
Hugs,
Dorothy
P.S. one day I might learn how to make a video and upload it.
Be patient!

21 comments:

jacque4u2c said...

Oh my goodness this is just astounding!!!!! It is so awesome, I just love the colors and the warm feeling it portrays! Just excellent!!!!!

Lorraine A said...

Oh wow !! This is just fabulous !!! What a work of art !!

Lorraine x x

Wellnifty said...

Wow, this is amazing, fantastic colours

Chris x

Stef H said...

This is like so totally awesome! WOW! And thanks sooooo much for sharing the tutorial! It's always fun to see what you have created. It's always so different and beautiful!

Hugs,

Kristen H said...

Love your card, and the fact that you share how you got the result is amazing. These are wonderful ART pieces! And fabulous works of HEART!

xxx

Beth Norman said...

Beautiful results! You are very talented.

Nerine .P. said...

Love all the colours, you must have had so much fun creating these, TFS.

Tenia Nelson said...

Very, very cool!!

Dagmar said...

The way you let the colors float into eachother is beautiful. You have so many different styles and you're good at every one of them.

Elaine said...

Hi Dorothy, thank you for your lovely comment on my blog!

Your work is beautiful! Absolutely stunning.

mueppi said...

Wow.... what a wonderful card with great colouring!!!
It`s fabulous!!!!!!!!!
Hugs Gisela

lisa said...

These are just stunning Dorothy. Real works of art.

Lisax

Anonymous said...

So beautiful Dorothy!! Just love the pretty BG colors!! Lovely details as always!! :)

de said...

Very nice! Alot of work went into this! I love it!

Kim Marie said...

Hi Dorothy!
Love the look of the cards you made with the alcohol inks...I adore using these inks! The card with the horse and rider is my favorite!

Also loved your comment that your result will never look quite as you imagine it! So true!

Wonderful work!
Kim Marie

Nicoline said...

Again a work of art! Beautiful!

Hugs,
Nicoline

Julie Temple said...

This is totally GORGEOUS!! I love the colors and how it turned out...very artistic!

jULIE

Anne said...

Lovely art, thanks you for your tutorial

Sonya said...

Thankyou for sharing you technique with us all. What a stunning result!

June said...

Fabulous technique tutorial and your work is amazing
Hugs June xxx

Jenny V. said...

OH my! This is amazing. I just love this technique. So vibrant and strong colors. Thanks for sharing the tutorial and hope I can give this a try.

Jenny

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